The Lutheran Church of the Messiah Sermons

Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 15   The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.   16   And the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;   17   but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.” 1   Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild an...

Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 1 Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the  Lord  is coming; it is near, 2  a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the year...

Exodus 24:12-18 12   The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and wait there; and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.”   13   So Moses set out with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God.   14   To the elders he had said, “Wait here for us, until we come to you...

Isaiah 58:1-12 1   Shout out, do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins.  2   Yet day after day they seek me and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments, they delight to draw near to God.  3   &#...

Micah 6:1-8 1   Hear what the Lord says: Rise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.  2   Hear, you mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.  3   “O my people, what have I done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me!  4   For I b...

Isaiah 9:1-4 1   But there will be no gloom for those who were in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he will make glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.   2   The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness— on them l...

Isaiah 49:1-7 1   Listen to me, O coastlands, pay attention, you peoples from far away! The Lord called me before I was born, while I was in my mother’s womb he named me.   2   He made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me a polished arrow, in his quiver he hid me away.   3   And he said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorif...

Isaiah 60:1-6 1   Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.   2   For darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will appear over you.   3   Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.   4   Lift up your eyes and look around; they all gather together, they...

Jeremiah 31:7-14 31:7 For thus says the LORD: Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, “Save, O LORD, your people, the remnant of Israel.” 31:8 See, I am going to bring them from the land of the north, and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, those with child and th...

Isaiah 63:7-9 7   I will recount the gracious deeds of the Lord, the praiseworthy acts of the Lord, because of all that the Lord has done for us, and the great favor to the house of Israel that he has shown them according to his mercy, according to the abundance of his steadfast love.   8   For he said, “Surely they are my people, children who will not deal falsely”; and he became thei...

Isaiah 52:7-10 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” 52:8 Listen! Your sentinels lift up their voices, together they sing for joy; for in plain sight they see the return of the LORD to Zion. 52:9 Break forth together into singing, you ruins of Jerusalem...

Isaiah 9:2-7 9:2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness on them light has shined. 9:3 You have multiplied the nation, you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as people exult when dividing plunder. 9:4 For the yoke of their burden, and the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor, yo...

Isaiah 7:10-16 10   Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, saying,   11   Ask a sign of the Lord your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.   12   But Ahaz said, I will not ask, and I will not put the Lord to the test.   13   Then Isaiah said: “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary mortals, that you weary my God also?   14   Therefore the Lord himself will give you...

Isaiah 35:1-10 1   The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the crocus   2   it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord, the majesty of our God.   3   Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.   4   S...

Isaiah 11:1-10 1   A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.   2   The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.   3   His delight shall be in the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide by what his ears...

Isaiah 2:1-5 1   This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:   2   In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.   3   Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teac...

Jeremiah 23:1-6 1   Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the Lord.   2   Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people: It is you who have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. So I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the Lord.   3   Then I myself will gath...

Isaiah 65:17-25 17   For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind.   18   But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating; for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight.   19   I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it, or the cry of dis...

Haggai 1:15b – 2:9 15   on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month. In the second year of King Darius, 1   on the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:   2   “Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, to Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people. Ask them,   3   ‘Who of you is left who saw t...

Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18 1   In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head as he lay in bed. Then he wrote down the dream:  2   I, Daniel, saw in my vision by night the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea,   3   and four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another. 15   As for me, Daniel, my spirit was troubled within me, and...

Joel 2:23-32 23   O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the Lord your God; for he has given the early rain for your vindication, he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the later rain, as before.   24   The threshing floors shall be full of grain, the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.   25   I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, th...

Jeremiah 3 1:27-34 27   The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals.   28   And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord.   29   In those days they shall no longer say: &#8...

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 1   This is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets and all the other people Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. 4   This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:   5   “Build ho...

Jeremiah 8:18 – 9:1 18   My joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick.   19   Hark, the cry of my poor people from far and wide in the land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” (“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their foreign idols?”)   20   “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”   2...

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 11   At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A hot wind comes from me out of the bare heights in the desert toward my poor people, not to winnow or cleanse—   12   a wind too strong for that. Now it is I who speak in judgment against them. 22   “For my people are foolish, they do not know me; they are stupid children, they have no understanding....